Projects

Overview of Projects:  In Brief

     Paper given at the RIREC Conference on Conflict Resolution, 09/2003

     Brochure Written in February, 2003

The Field Institute for Post-Conflict Studies/Vukovar Synagogue Center  In Brief  Full Text

A Project With Invalids With Bubamara Financed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee   In Brief  Full Text

In Brief

Overview of Projects [go to top]

Since 1995, the CWWPP has worked with more than 30 village groups and/or treatment groups and has trained a similar number of professional and peer-assistance groups.  We have also assisted about 25 individual clients.  For more details see the:

Paper given at the RIREC Conference on Conflict Resolution, 09/2003

Brochure Written in February, 2003

The Field Institute for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies/Vukovar Synagogue Center Project  [go to top]

The CWWPP has been working on the idea of a field institute for post-conflict studies since the beginning of 1999, believing that the connection between Western programs of trauma, conflict resolution and reconciliation, reintegration and redevelopment for such areas do not adequate meet the needs seen in the field.  The project has theoretical and practical aspects.  In 2002, the CWWPP joined with Europe House Vukovar, The Bench We Share Association and the Jewish Community of Osijek on the Field Institute/Vukovar Synagogue Center Project.  To learn more about the project and to read a full proposal for it, click here.

Invalid Project Carried Out With Bubamara of Vinkovci and financed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Through a Contribution by Dr. Alfred Bader and his Wife Isabel  [go to top]

This project may be seen as a successful pilot combining elements of material assistance to invalids, psychological assistance to invalids, employment for long-term unemployed and psychological training for those employed to enable them to work more effectively with the invalids.  The project was carried out jointly with the group Bubamara, a group of invalids working for invalids, of Vinkovci, Croatia.  88 clients were seen during a four-month period.  There were roughly as many males as females.  The ethnic distribution of clients represented that of the area.  The main diagnoses were paralysis and mental retardation.  About 15% of clients had multiple diagnoses.  The vast majority of adaptations were in the bathroom.  Ramps accounted for about 11% of clients.  Multiple adaptations were carried out in 15% of clients. Virtually all clients and their carers had psychological difficulties.  An average of USD 72 per client was spent on materials.  The total project cost was USD 215 per client.  Clients and staff were highly satisfied with the project.  We were somewhat taken aback by the amount of poverty and the lack of medical and caring services in the client group.  Many clients are extremely isolated and have little opportunity for rehabilitation.  We believe that the project should be extended expanded geographically, in terms of the length of the project and in terms on the amount spent per client.  We see an urgent need in the region for psychological assistance to clients and carers and for rehabilitation services.  We believe that this can be done through well-trained and well-supervised non-professionals.  To read the report in full, click here.

Project on the Jews of Vukovar 2005-2006 financed by the Hanadiv Foundation

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The project to date has been highly successful.  We are enormously surprised at the huge amount of data that we are finding and the great amount of cooperation and acceptance of the project that we are getting from officials and from the local population as a whole.  The project has provoked an awakening of memories of the past and has begun to break the suspicion and fear of talking about memories long forbidden.  Some 12 interviews have been conducted.  Some 17 interviews were carried out.  Some 600 photographs of the graveyards of Ilok and Vukovar were taken, documenting all monuments and the gravesites themselves.  A total of about 1300 documents from the Municipal Museums of Ilok and Vukovar were scanned.  A total of more than 4000 documents were scanned.  Far more documentation than expected was encountered.  At current rates of work, it is anticipated that another 18-24 months will be required to obtain all available documentation.  An additional two years will be required to produce translations and an analysis of the data.  There has been excellent local acceptance of the project and cooperation from official and non-official sources.  To read a full report of the project, click here.